2 million "strong." Yeah, I'm going to believe Cryptic saying Neverwinter has 2 million unique players playing this game.

More like 1.5 million have quit. 300,000 are/were bots.

I can believe that there are over 2 million unique characters ever created in this game. But the way they try to word it in their article, it sounds like 2 million players are still playing this game, which is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever read. There is no possible way 2 million players are currently playing Neverwinter. It's a ridiculous claim and a bad joke.

They also state that the game only launched for a month, which is totally untrue. This game has been out since May and been live for 3 months. I guarantee most of the 2 million unique accounts were created in May and June, not July until now. More bullshit coming from Cryptic and PWE.

Logging into Dragon, the most populated server, and seeing only 500 people in Enclave, and 30 people at most in any zone, I think it's a safe bet that the 2 million is not an accurate measure of the games success.

Compare that to WoW, where you'll have 5000+ people on during prime time on each of the 180+ servers in the US.

I have 5 accounts due to the limited character slots which will throw off the count as well. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I just checked now, in the middle of a weekday EU and very early in the morning US.

There are 1,340 people online in the Enclave; no idea how many are in dungeons/quest zones/PvP/Gauntlgrym (which is currently active), though. /u/threehoursago down below estimates there's around 4,000 if you check on a weekend.

If you factor in average play time per person per day, that number's gonna multiply - to maintain an average of (let's say) 3,000 online in all zones at all times, you'd need 3,000 people playing 24 hours a day. I'd say the average was more to the tune of 1-2 hours a day; some hardcore players running for many hours every day, a lot of more casual players running a dungeon or two every few days and so on.

If we take 1.5 hours a day as average play time, we need 3,000 * (24/1.5) to maintain our average, which is 48,000 players active on the server.

Remember this doesn't take into account other servers, zones, dungeons, alts; and will only include active players.

Waaay under 2 million of course, but still a sizable chunk; and come on, comparing to WoW is a wholly unfair thing to do!

Yes I did. Enclave caps at 149 characters per instance, zones seem to cap at 49. On a weekend I'll see 20 instances in Enclave, but zones are still very quiet. So maybe 4000 people playing on Dragon and less on the other servers.

I think there are several instances in a shard/server so checking how many players there is in a particular map isn't so accurate. The only thing I find annoying in this game is the annoying "Server not respoding..." message that pops a lot. I know it isn't my ISP since my latency is good in other games.

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